Teaching

Professional Program

In 2015, I assumed the role of Associate Director, Curriculum, overseeing all aspects of the professional pharmacy program. My primary teaching role in our undergraduate curriculum is to coordinate pharmacology
content (including toxicology and pharmacogenetics) across the entire program. The curriculum at the University of
Waterloo integrates most of the pharmacology content into upper-year
“Integrated Patient-Focused Care” (IPFC) courses. I am currently coordinating IPFC 8, Neuropsychiatric Therapeutics. Previously I have coordinated Pharm 141 (Introduction to Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry), 222 (IPFC-3, Endocrine Therapeutics), and Pharm 401 (Independent Study).

As we established our graduate program, one of the challenges was to
design a core graduate course that would benefit students from diverse
backgrounds studying all aspects of drug discovery and human health. The fields
of study in our graduate program are extremely diverse: synthesizing new
compounds, culturing cells, performing animal studies, creating computer
simulations, database analysis, etc. I designed, coordinated, and delivered much
of the content for Pharm 610: Topics in Drug Development that takes students
from lead molecule identification and analytical chemistry through to clinical
trials, post-marketing surveillance, and pharmacoeconomics.